Eric Stefanski Finish in My Mouth For Sale

About this work

Eric Stefanski has emerged as a distinctive voice within contemporary figurative painting, developing a practice that interrogates intimacy, vulnerability, and the charged spaces between bodies. Working primarily in acrylics, Stefanski builds surfaces that balance gestural immediacy with deliberate compositional restraint, a tension that has garnered attention from collectors attuned to the renewed interest in figurative work among younger artists. *Finish in My Mouth* exemplifies the directness that defines Stefanski's recent output. The title operates with characteristic frankness, refusing euphemism while the painted surface itself negotiates between suggestion and revelation. At 16 x 20 inches, the work maintains an intimate scale that reinforces its subject matter—these are paintings meant to be encountered personally rather than surveyed from across a room. The 2026 date places this canvas within Stefanski's current period of production, a moment when his visual language has reached a confident maturity while retaining the rawness that first distinguished his practice. Stefanski's handling of acrylic demonstrates technical fluency without sacrificing the urgency that animates his subject matter. The medium allows for both rapid execution and considered layering, and this particular work evidences his ability to modulate between the two approaches within a single composition. His treatment of flesh tones and the spaces bodies occupy continues to develop the thematic concerns he has pursued throughout his career, though here with a sharpened focus. Guy Hepner is pleased to offer this work from our New York gallery, and inquiries regarding acquisition are welcomed.